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Trust A Boat
Amsterdam, Utrecht, Groningen, Holland, Toronto, Peterborough, Canada, 1986

9 films were rear projected upon 9 windows of a 3 story building. 9 people performed as silhouettes in the windows. The audience were on the street. The performance toured Holland and Canada with a total of 23 showings.



"Trust a boat to bring out the irrational in mankind..." -Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

"Barker's sure handed use of the film medium is married to a radical incompleteness that everywhere suggests connections without making them explicit....Trust breaks with the monologue usually associated with the proscenium and extends its narrative powers to the audience that will learn to trust themselves..."
Phillip Barker and the Modest Spectacle of Trust - Mike Hoolboom, Composition



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